It annoys and pisses me off greatly when I see pro-adoption people talk about 'responsible breeders'. There is no such thing as a 'responsible' breeder.
Why? You might be thinking. Because all breeders add to the problem and do not subtract from the problem.
Here is an example.
Breeder A breeds a dog. Said dog has 5 puppies.
Rescue Centre B has 5 dogs, varying ages.
Breeder A sells the 5 puppies to 5 homes.
Rescue Centre B has no homes for those 5 dogs of varying ages.
Why does rescue centre b still have no homes? Because they were taken up by the puppies that were sold by breeder A. It's basic maths. The more bred dogs/cats/rabbits/etc in homes, the less homes there are for rescue animals. So, therein lies the problem. Some of these rescued animals end up being put to sleep for no other reason than their alloted 'find a home' time is up. Thankfully, a lot of the big shelters in the UK are 'no-kill' shelters (where they do not perform euthanasia on unwanted animals). However, there are still some that are. Wood Green, RSPCA, Battersea. And the kill shelters are more prevalent in America.
Simply put, breeding ANY domesticated animal that is so numerous that a healthy adoptable one is put down in their thousands every year, is entirely irresponsible. We do not NEED more cats, dogs, rabbits etc. There are plenty sitting in shelters waiting for forever homes already. So do the right thing. Adopt. Never buy.
The phrase is:
Don't sell and buy whilst shelter animals die.
This includes those sold in pet stores - of which for the most part, are mass bred in warehouses and then in tiny enclosures within the stores. Pets At Home, Jollyes. Both guilty as charged. And it does not help that small enclosures are sold as though they are adequate for any animal. The people that staff these places may know basic care, but are far from knowledgeable on any animals full needs. They cannot even guarantee the sex of most of the animals they sell. Partly because they sell babies - many of these animals are far to young to be away from mother, but babies is what gets the money rolling in. Also, there is no home check either. So a poor rabbit may end up in a home with a dog that sees rabbit as a tasty morsel, and not a new friend. Plus many other things needed to take into account when re-homing an animal.
So, basically, any store or breeder selling animals is not doing the animals a favour. Especially since the main aim is to make a profit. When you treat an animal as a money making machine, any respect or care for the animal often goes out the window. That's why there are so many puppy farms, and warehouse breeding of pet shop animals (including ones sold in garden centres).
An animal is not a thing to be bartered and sold. It is a living, breathing being that requires a life commitment. So please, spay and neuter your pets, adopt from a shelter (even if it means several hours drive) and don't perpetuate the myth of a 'responsible breeder'.
Thursday 11 April 2013
Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher...a good thing.
Love her or loathe her. She's popped her clogs.
I personally don't know much about her other than she is a tory, so probably a complete asshole of a politician...and no doubt believed in the mantra of making the rich richer, and the poor poorer like our current tosspot, Cameron.
That said, the one thing annoying me about this whole thing is people are using the ending of free milk in schools for certain age groups as one of the 'bad' things she did. As usual, this reeks of dairy lobby brainwashing about milk supposedly being good for us.
Fact of the matter is, taking free milk away from schools was probably one of the only good things she did in her life. If you think a child should be consuming milk for health reasons...you're dead wrong - to the point of osteoporosis wrong. I see it everywhere; people so dumbfounded and brainwashed by the dairy lobby, they don't even understand where milk comes from and how it's made. Yes, there are people who think 'cows just eat grass and make milk'. They do not stop and think for one minute that, as a mammal (like humans), the cow has to be pregnant in order to lactate. Yes, milk is a cow's lactations. Just like ferret milk is a ferret lactation, goats milk...and you get the idea. And what is milk intended for? Babies! That is, the babies of the species the milk is coming from. Cows milk for calves, goats milks for kids (baby goats, not human children), human milk for human babies. This is how mammals feed their young in the early stages of life, and how the young receive all the necessary antibodies for their body. The first milk any baby animal or human drinks is colostrum. This is the most important of all milk suckled. Unfortunately, some animals do not even get this.
Calves are torn from them mothers within 24 hours or less just so the farmer can have his milk to sell. The females will be fed on powdered milk - yes, they get the crappy man made stuff, whilst we steal what is rightfully theirs. Males will be shot on sight, or if the farmer can make any money from it, sent for veal. Veal is where male calves are fed an iron deficient diet to make them anaemic. It is considered a delicacy. These calves, also, on most veal farms are crated and tied to one end of the crate via a rope attached to the neck.
Female calves become herd replacers. And do you know what happens when their mothers don't produce the required amount of milk the farmer expects? She ends up at the slaughter house too. Those cheap burgers, pies, etc. She is probably in one of those. A mother, a mammal, a living breathing being. Not content on causing them incredible emotional distress from calf snatching, farmers milk them for all their worth with mechanical pumps - which contrary to popular belief, are nothing like the soft suckling of a calf. Then she may be chained at the legs if she begins to buckle underneath the weight of her udder (some cows are so over bred or had genes meddled with to cause bigger milk yields have bodies that can't handle it). Lastly she gets to hear the cries of her herd mates as they go through the slaughter house system in a quick and timely fashion. You've been told it's humane, clean, best way to do it, right? More agri lies. If you ever get undercover footage of a slaughterhouse you'll see this is not the case. Time is money, so minimal checks to no checks will be made to make sure any stunning has occurred properly. So often the cows (and most other animals) bleed out from the slice to the jugular. They literally bleed to death whilst hanging upside down by one leg on a chain linked to a conveyor belt. Humane? No. Clean? No. The Best? No.
And you know what? There is absolutely no need for any of this, let alone other meats or animal excretions in our diets. Most of the world is lactose intolerant. We certainly weren't consuming milk when we went 'ug'. Milk is for babies. Not for any other species. We are the only species to steal and consume the milk of another species. If that's not a clue as to it being wrong, I don't know what is. And you know what's funny? The pro-dairy people try to counter that claim by showing pictures of tigers suckling pigs and what not. Guess what? Those are human created interactions. You'd be hard pressed to find it in the wild. Plus they are also babies! All babies need a mother's milk. But not another species milk unless there is a dire need in the wild and one species goes against the norm and adopts a baby of another species. But again, these instances are rare and do not in anyway show we should consume milk, let alone enslave cows, take away their young and then kill the mothers. Even animals in the wild who do those rare scenarios do not do this! Plus appealing to nature always ends up as a fallacious argument since one can say that if we are to copy nature then we would allow such things such as infanticide based on territory and mating habits. And it can also be easily said about herbivores existing, so vegans can use that too.
If you're going to make a solid argument, don't use something that can be spun around and thrown back at you.
Anyways, I've gone on a bit and strayed from the original point.
I don't care if people want to celebrate the death of ole' maggie. I don't care if they dance on her grave. The whole respect the dead crap is just that, a pile of crap. The dead can't care. They're dead. So disrespect away. But please, for god's sake, don't complain about her milk snatching ways as though it was a bad thing. It was the best and probably only good thing she did. Use the brain you were born with and make the connection. Mammals = live young and fed on milk secreted from mammaries. Seriously, don't be a sheeple. The dairy lobby and agri lobby rely on sheeple. Prove to them you won't be their bitch!
I personally don't know much about her other than she is a tory, so probably a complete asshole of a politician...and no doubt believed in the mantra of making the rich richer, and the poor poorer like our current tosspot, Cameron.
That said, the one thing annoying me about this whole thing is people are using the ending of free milk in schools for certain age groups as one of the 'bad' things she did. As usual, this reeks of dairy lobby brainwashing about milk supposedly being good for us.
Fact of the matter is, taking free milk away from schools was probably one of the only good things she did in her life. If you think a child should be consuming milk for health reasons...you're dead wrong - to the point of osteoporosis wrong. I see it everywhere; people so dumbfounded and brainwashed by the dairy lobby, they don't even understand where milk comes from and how it's made. Yes, there are people who think 'cows just eat grass and make milk'. They do not stop and think for one minute that, as a mammal (like humans), the cow has to be pregnant in order to lactate. Yes, milk is a cow's lactations. Just like ferret milk is a ferret lactation, goats milk...and you get the idea. And what is milk intended for? Babies! That is, the babies of the species the milk is coming from. Cows milk for calves, goats milks for kids (baby goats, not human children), human milk for human babies. This is how mammals feed their young in the early stages of life, and how the young receive all the necessary antibodies for their body. The first milk any baby animal or human drinks is colostrum. This is the most important of all milk suckled. Unfortunately, some animals do not even get this.
Calves are torn from them mothers within 24 hours or less just so the farmer can have his milk to sell. The females will be fed on powdered milk - yes, they get the crappy man made stuff, whilst we steal what is rightfully theirs. Males will be shot on sight, or if the farmer can make any money from it, sent for veal. Veal is where male calves are fed an iron deficient diet to make them anaemic. It is considered a delicacy. These calves, also, on most veal farms are crated and tied to one end of the crate via a rope attached to the neck.
Female calves become herd replacers. And do you know what happens when their mothers don't produce the required amount of milk the farmer expects? She ends up at the slaughter house too. Those cheap burgers, pies, etc. She is probably in one of those. A mother, a mammal, a living breathing being. Not content on causing them incredible emotional distress from calf snatching, farmers milk them for all their worth with mechanical pumps - which contrary to popular belief, are nothing like the soft suckling of a calf. Then she may be chained at the legs if she begins to buckle underneath the weight of her udder (some cows are so over bred or had genes meddled with to cause bigger milk yields have bodies that can't handle it). Lastly she gets to hear the cries of her herd mates as they go through the slaughter house system in a quick and timely fashion. You've been told it's humane, clean, best way to do it, right? More agri lies. If you ever get undercover footage of a slaughterhouse you'll see this is not the case. Time is money, so minimal checks to no checks will be made to make sure any stunning has occurred properly. So often the cows (and most other animals) bleed out from the slice to the jugular. They literally bleed to death whilst hanging upside down by one leg on a chain linked to a conveyor belt. Humane? No. Clean? No. The Best? No.
And you know what? There is absolutely no need for any of this, let alone other meats or animal excretions in our diets. Most of the world is lactose intolerant. We certainly weren't consuming milk when we went 'ug'. Milk is for babies. Not for any other species. We are the only species to steal and consume the milk of another species. If that's not a clue as to it being wrong, I don't know what is. And you know what's funny? The pro-dairy people try to counter that claim by showing pictures of tigers suckling pigs and what not. Guess what? Those are human created interactions. You'd be hard pressed to find it in the wild. Plus they are also babies! All babies need a mother's milk. But not another species milk unless there is a dire need in the wild and one species goes against the norm and adopts a baby of another species. But again, these instances are rare and do not in anyway show we should consume milk, let alone enslave cows, take away their young and then kill the mothers. Even animals in the wild who do those rare scenarios do not do this! Plus appealing to nature always ends up as a fallacious argument since one can say that if we are to copy nature then we would allow such things such as infanticide based on territory and mating habits. And it can also be easily said about herbivores existing, so vegans can use that too.
If you're going to make a solid argument, don't use something that can be spun around and thrown back at you.
Anyways, I've gone on a bit and strayed from the original point.
I don't care if people want to celebrate the death of ole' maggie. I don't care if they dance on her grave. The whole respect the dead crap is just that, a pile of crap. The dead can't care. They're dead. So disrespect away. But please, for god's sake, don't complain about her milk snatching ways as though it was a bad thing. It was the best and probably only good thing she did. Use the brain you were born with and make the connection. Mammals = live young and fed on milk secreted from mammaries. Seriously, don't be a sheeple. The dairy lobby and agri lobby rely on sheeple. Prove to them you won't be their bitch!
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